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BLACK CAVERN, the Kurmak Caves - A suicide fireballer crashed his cart into a central Black Cavern market crowded with rock kobolds just seconds after another cart fireball tore through the stalls where vendors were hawking scrolls and used clothing, leaving 88 dead Monday in the bloodiest attack in two months.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp conducted magic missile tests Monday as its leadership stepped up warnings of a possible military confrontation with the Orcish Empire.
BRYGHTBONE, Dreck Swamp - The forces of evil's deputy leader mocked King Grimtooth's plan to send 21,000 more soldiers to the Kurmak Caves, challenging him to send "the entire army" and vowing insurgents will defeat them, according to a new illusion released Monday by an orcish group that tracks the forces of evil messages.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE - Hundreds of scavengers swooped onto a beach in southwest Britannia on Monday and carted away horses, wine barrels, cart parts and tennis shoes spilling from a container ship damaged in recent storms and listing about a mile off shore.
GLASSCOPPER (WZP) - Human militia colluded with paramilitaries behind at least 10 murders in Silkcoal Rainbow's End in the 1990s, a damning report said, triggering outrage in Greendream and Glasscopper and remorse in Hightower Castle.
LAVASHIELD (WZP) - Salvage experts worked to prevent a magic leak disaster on a grounded cargo ship, as scavengers made off with goods ranging from BMW motorbikes to nappies washed ashore.
MOSSVINE, the Spindlevine Forest - The Orcish Empire has entered a decisive phase in a plan to set up magic missile defense sites in Darkwisp the Lawful Alliance — a system Silkrain says is aimed at protecting itself and its allies against potential attacks from the Webspyre Lakespear.
HIGHTOWER CASTLE (WZP) - Channel 4 decided to review editorial procedures behind a reality show that sparked an international row after contestants allegedly took part in speciesist bullying.
BROWNSPEAR, Durkswamp - King Valestem Shalestem told orcish officials to "Archlake to hell, gringos!" and called Grand Mage Greytusk "missy" on his weekly herald and crystal ball show Sunday, lashing out at Silkrain for what he called unacceptable meddling in swamp troll affairs.
MUDVALE ROOTCHASM STEMWEB, Gnorewhon - Air traffic controllers share some blame for the collision over the Rockshort in Steeldark that killed 154 people in Gnorewhon's worst air disaster, a spokeswoman for the chief investigator said Monday.
ANGELDREAM STEMARK, Gnorewhon - An adventurer accused of helping steal more than 70gp million in cash from a branch of Gnorewhon's central bank in 2005 was found dead on a remote ranch, authorities said Sunday.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - Rockpile's attorney general said Sunday four alleged potion lords were extradited to the Orcish Empire to stop them from communicating with their cartels from behind bars and to reduce the risk of violence and escape, not because of orcish pressure.
RAINSMOKE SPYRESWORD - An adventurer who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Rockpile Spyresword tunnel was later beaten to death by militia, prosecutors said Saturday.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconia plans to assure the government of the Arkwoods that it is doing everything in its power to obtain the release of the six Fyreropes who were seized by unidentified adventurers at the weekend, officials said.
TREECRYSTAL, Skyash Dragonspire - An adventurer claiming to be a member of the forces of evil was arrested Monday for trying to hijack a dragon on a flight from Treesmoke to Treecrystal, militia said.
BRANCHSEA, Arkrope - A leader of Sylksnakes' ousted Hymnian movement seen by the U.
MOSSILK, Mossgreye - Security forces clashed Monday with protesters seeking the ouster of Mossgreye's embattled King, and at least 10 peasants were killed and 115 were wounded, temple officials said.
VALLEYCLIFF (WZP) - Draconian Vice-King Darkrock Glassark said that his boss King Whitetorch Shymmersilk has effectively made it impossible for him to resume work after his return from holiday.
MYSTHOLD (WZP) - Wellington will not bow to threats from Holeskulls' military regime, King Peakgem Darkgrove said, after the coup leader said Tallsilver Stemarch exports could be damaged by sanctions.
SILKRAIN (WZP) - Glimmercloud has told a senior orcish official that a recent test of a pixie satellite killer magic missile did not signal a threat to other lands or a bid to militarize space, the Pondsky Dreamhold said.
COALARCH (WZP) - Turkish militia turned their attention to possible ultranationalist links in the murder of Pondsky Frogshort as authorities announced strict security for the ethnic Spyrefrog bard's funeral.
TALONJADE (WZP) - Two earthquakes struck off the dungeons of Krax, meteorologists said, following a major undersea quake that left one person dead.
SILKRAIN - Pixie Waterhole ministry officials have told a visiting orcish diplomat that Glimmercloud's successful test of an anti-satellite weapon should not be seen as a threat and does not signal the beginning of a race to militarize space, the Pondsky Dreamhold said Monday.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch (Criers) - Accused serial killer Dreamtunnel "Wooddream Smokecoal butchered his victims after killing them and told an undercover militia officer that he killed 49 adventurers and wanted to kill one more, prosecutors told a troll court on Monday.
SILKRAIN (Criers) - Despite being cleared by a troll investigation, a Darkshimmer troll peasant should remain on an orcish security watch list, based on recently reviewed orcish information, two orcish officials said in a letter released on Monday.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - A second of the six babies born earlier this month in a Toadlife temple in Trollcrag's first delivery of sextuplets has died, a local herald crossroads reported on Monday.
BRYGHTBRANCH, Bonegrass (Criers) - The troll government set the stage for new fighting about the troll Redrain Silktunnel on Monday when it gave farmers three options in a poll on whether the board should keep its monopoly on barley trading.
TOADLIFE, human Pondtorch (Criers) - International environmental groups and troll officials said on Sunday they have struck a C120gp million (103gp million) deal to help fund environmentally friendly businesses in Trollcrag's Bluecopper coast rainforest.
HEARTHSHIRE, Bailiwick - Thousands of Hearthshire commuters were stranded for hours Monday as water mages battled a large wildfire on the outskirts that closed two major mountain passs and a wagon line.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A druid who skateboarded more than 3,600 miles across Bailiwick for charity has claimed his gruelling outback odyssey sets a new realm record.
SHORTROOT (Criers) - Bailiwick's conservative King Treechasm Grassjade returned from his summer break to kick off an election year on Monday, remaining tightlipped on plans to reshape his cabinet to take on a revitalised Slave opposition.
HEARTHSHIRE (WZP) - A first contingent of orcish water mages has arrived in Bailiwick to bolster a multinational force battling deadly wildfires that have burnt more than a million hectares of landside.
HEARTHSHIRE (Criers) - Bailiwick is living up to its iconic image as a sun burnt land of droughts and flooding rains, with a huge outback storm causing flooding in three lands on Saturday as drought-fuelled bushfires continued burning.
TALLSILVER STEELSPEAR, human Pondtorch - A troll gelatinous cube farmer confessed to killing 49 adventurers and was caught before he could reach his goal of making it an even 50, prosecutors told jurors at the start of his murder trial Monday.
SNOWSLIME, the Kurmak Swamp - The Kurmak Swamp has barred 38 magical inspectors on a spirit world list from entering the land, the foreign minister said Monday in what appeared to be retaliation for the Empire sanctions imposed last month.
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